But another doctor tried to say she was Brian dead! I said are you neurologist? Because I was there when one did the test. They did an ekg that showed she had active brain function. Evevery night from 12 night till 7 in the morning I was told let her go.

The doctors opened her head & at somepoint suffered several strokes! The doctors told me to let her go. I want to say don't give up my mom fell hit her head had a massive brain bleed. Please let me know if you have come across such situation and any solution had worked for you. As time passes, he will miss out on PT/OT due to not having energy and drowsiness whole day. Nursing home staff is good with trac patients but don't have neuro experts.

Not sure if we take him back to ICU to treat his headache or keep him in nursing home. At this point, after 7 weeks, we are stuck. With very small feeding amount of 40ml/hr, he is opens his eyes for short time and shows headaches. After fixing that, vomiting reduced but did not go away. Vomiting was due to incorrect tube in stomach which resulted in air. Here he started having vomiting and headaches. He also able to adapt on PMV for speech for short duration. After 2 weeks in ICU, he had improved where he opened his eyes and moved his right side. After 36 hours, he moved his right leg and we got hope. Basically don't let them do surgery on 84 year old if TPA has worked. Doctor told us that he is in veg state and will not recover. Still they performed the operation and try to expand artery which resulted in Major stroke.When we saw him after 8 hours, he was all cold with breathing tube and not responding. They flew him in helicopter (surprised that they did that for brain stork patient). Doctor at ER said they want to check the damage and try to see the artery. My Father(84) had brain stroke and took him to ER. We know this is going to be a long process but our family is hopeful that a miracle will happen. If any one knows of some one that has come out of this I would greatly appreciate the good news. He also has a fever that comes and goes due to brain damage doctors say and the only way to control the fever is with ice packs or the cooling blanket. Unfortunately he has not woken up but we continue to do exercises on him and talk to him. We do believe he hears us because we have asked him to move his arm or squeeze my hand and to us we believe he is listening because he has done it when we ask. There is body movement and eyes opening but non on command. The doctors say he will be in a vegetative state. Unfortunately due to us not knowing how long exactly he was unresponsive there is brain damage due to lack of oxygen to the brain. His coworkers found him and did CPR until the ambulance arrived which was 4 minutes later. We believe he was unresponsive for about 18 minutes. My brother age 28 had a heart attack at work.

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